Liberty Project, Liberty New York

Kathy Boyko, Vittorio's wife during the time I studied with him, has found me through this blog and made contact, sending me some images from Vittorio's Liberty Project, a complex shell structure outside the town of Liberty, in upstate New York, and a great photo of Vittorio climbing a sailboat mast.  I'm adding a few photos I shot when I visited the project, I believe it was in Summer 1978.

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Roosevelt Island Project - 1975



Model from West

Plan of North Tower, parking structure, from East





Early in Vittorio's career at Pratt Institute, Sam Gordon, Lisa Elfenbein and Michael Thompson worked with Vittorio on a Project for Roosevelt Island.  Our project never reached completion, but perhaps formed a foundation for the work of others to come later.  Here it is in drawing and model form, published here for the first time, with great respect and admiration for our teacher, Vittorio Giorgini.

Sam Lisa and Michael





  Michael and Vittorio photographing the Roosevelt Island Project model.  Please CLICK HERE to see additional photos:

some bad photos of some good friends

The party at Sam's for Vittorio. Mar 19, 2010 Thanks to everyone for their stories about Vittorio. Maybe we should do this once every year!

Cultural Center for Cooper Square, New York 1989

Composite of sketches Vittorio made while working with me on this project. The program of a cultural center was to revitalize a once empty site across from Cooper Union and adjacent to Astor Place. The main elongated building (octet-frame forming an inverted tetrahedron) was lifted above the site and supported by a massive concrete frame. Part quad-pod and buttress the frame touched the ground at two points and braced itself against the neighboring building altering the existing construction and rejuvenating the spaces within. A ground-scape replete with octa-frame extended over the streets and connected to pedestrian activity and the subway.

Chris Pfaeffle - Giorgini Drawings